Leftover Agreement: Spelling out Kartvelian numberLeftover Agreement • February 15th, 2020
Introduction: We show that in Kartvelian languages (Georgian, Laz, Megrelian, Svan) whether a higher number probe agrees or not depends on the exponent used by a lower probe. Only the unexponed (= leftover ) features of the lower probe can get agreed with by the higher probe. We call such agreement Leftover Agreement (LA), and argue that it lends new support to an architecture that cyclically interleaves syntax and Spell-Out (Calabrese & Pescarini 2014, Martinovi´c 2019, a.o.). Background: Kartvelian verbs have three agreement slots. We assume the first slot (g- in (1)) corresponds to a v -probe, the second (-da) to a T-probe, and the third (-t ) to a higher Agr-probe.
Leftover Agreement in Kartvelian*Leftover Agreement • October 30th, 2019
Leftover Agreement: Spelling out Kartvelian numberLeftover Agreement • February 5th, 2020
This poster: VI is only partially replacive: the expo- nent replaces only those features of the head that its specification matches.
